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The Paradox of Passivity in the Visual Economy of Instragram
Sefer is, in french, a reflexive verb. It can have a passive or an active valand so in french, you can have kind of both at the same time through this reflexive verb orm. But in english, frustrating many translators from french into english, you have to choose whether to render it actively or passively. So i'm going to stick with the french term for a moment here, which is sefer obge, because it gets at both of those dimensions. For beauvoir, this passive object side of ourselves that we always have, we can also kind of lean into too heavily, right? And that's what happens when we're making ourselves
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